"If you haven't changed your underwear yet this week, today is the day."
- Don Staples, director of Boys Camp, addressing 111 4th-6th grade boys
I love Boys Camp! It's so much fun: Treasure hunts and "Night Owls," "Capture the Flag" and water fights, fishing and miniature golf and wave jumping. And it's the only camp where we feel the need to remind campers to shower and change clothes!
We just wrapped up Boys Camp last evening. It was a wonderful week. Here are some highlights for me:
- Verne and Ellen Martin spent the week with us. Verne was a camper at the first ever Twin Rocks Boys Camp - in 1941! Later, Verne served as Recreation Director at Boys Camp for 20-some years. This week he returned to Boys Camp for the first time in decades, serving as a "Camp Uncle" - providing backup to our cabin counselors. He hid treasures throughout camp and posted clues on how to find them in the camp dining hall. The kids loved it.
- At the end of the week, one camper from a troubled background told his cabin counselor: "I wish you were my Dad." It's difficult to hear of the tough home lives of some of these boys. And it's wonderful that our cabin counselors are able to clearly shine the love of Christ to them.
- Several kids in camp gave their lives to Christ this week! Gary Fawver, our Bible teacher, worked in conjunction with our cabin counselors to present kids with the opportunity to choose to follow Jesus. There's nothing more meaningful in life than submitting oneself to God, accepting God's love, basking in his care, and promising to follow him. And what a joy it is to see kids make this decision for themselves.
